I made no bones about how pants I thought Marvel's special Avengers teaser images were, so much so that I stopped posting them on the blog. So imagine my joy when I saw this cheeky little teaser from those rapscallions at Image Comics. Firmly taking the piss outta Marvel but effectively promoting the Image Universe's very first proper ongoing team book; Guardians of the Globe, kudos to the Image marketing team I say (not sure aboput the name though guys).

Soon to be on Disney Channels across the globe:

We do seem to be literally swimming in comic book cartoons of late. I remember the days when I used to get so excited over my taped off the TV Spider-Man and his Amazing Friends, kids these days don't even know their born, god I'm getting old.

I pity the fool that thinks the A-Team is gonna be better than this...

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I don't really know why I feel the need to create this faux tension between the Losers and the A-Team, they just seem so close in style and content that a smackdown seems natural. I will of course be going to see both films so it doesn't really matter.

How did this one pass me by? Well at least this one is more of a teaser than the Bendis and Romita Jr adjectiveless Avengers. Who could this be? And doesn't this team's remit sound very similar to X-Force 'getting the badass shit done that the normal Avengers can't', I'm of course paraphrasing there. Can't quite work out who it is from the silouette, maybe Black Panther? My fiorst thought Spiderman 2099 but surely not?! This'll be kicking off in May with Brubaker writing and Deodato on art duties making it pretty hard to pass up. Damn you Marvel you're winning back my blackened heart.

With the first movie it was the brilliant if not slightly 'on the money' Black Sabbath, but really what else could it be but Iron Man? For the second coming of Iron Man clearly only AC/DC's Shoot to Thrill could pack enough of a punch. Enjoy.

Link: http://www.boom-studios.net/

By now we've all seen the 'Mark Waid is Evil' banners and t-shirts and bumper stickers and (probably) weapons of mass destruction that Boom! Studios used to promote their Irredeeemable series and they pulled a similar trick for that title's sister book Incorruptable. Well it seems like they're at it again...

The press release I got from them today just had this picture attached and nothing else. It's definitely related to a new upcoming series as that was in the subject heading but which new series and what does it all mean? Looks pretty badass though yeah? Very Samuel Jackson I think, wonder how Marvel will feel about that? Could the coolest man on the planet also be working with Boom! Studios? Keep 'em pealed and let me know.

*UPDATE*
Thanks to MTV Splashpage we now know the series will be called Cold Space and is a collaboration between Jackson and Afro Samurai writer and producer Eric Calderon. Colour me interested.

So March is the date and Uncanny X-Men #522 is the issue that Kitty Pryde returns. What I want to know is where did she find some hair dye inside that bullet?

Debuting in Invincible Iron Man #25 is the new Iron Man armor as designed by Matt Fraction and Ryan Meinerding, designer on the Iron Man and Thor films. “The inspiration for the new design came from thinking about a sleeker, leaner, tougher Iron Man,” revealed Fraction. “If technology is increasingly getting smaller and lighter it seems like the Iron Man should do the same: ergonomic and aerodynamic. We were looking for something that felt as sleek and glossy as a sports car Tony Stark would covet. I love what we've come up with. It feels like the next evolutionary step in the Iron Man's design.”

This new armor is certainly sleaker than anything we've seen before but is in no way a quantum leap from the current armor, maintaining the traditional colour scheme and general appearance of previous incarnations. I was going to kick off about how everytime Marvel have a major film about to launch, like say Iron Man 2, they tend to mess with the comics and put the character through some major changes. However seeing as one of the designers from the movie worked on this armor I'm wondering if by the end of the second celluloid outing of ol' Shell Head we may see Mr Downey sporting a brand new armor? It's been rumoured that we may see the Extremis armor in the new film and could this new more lightweight and less complex armor herald it's return to the comics too? So many questions but I guess we'll just have to wait until May to find out.

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Remember all the debate about that jigsaw Spider-Man promotional image, you should do it's like two posts below this one, well this here is that completed image with all the pieces of the jigsaw together. As my man Crimson Archer suggested it looks very much like all that One More Day/Brand New Day stuff could be coming to a head and as a non-Spidey fan I'm relly interested in what the hardcore webhead fan's reaction will be. After all there was such a backlash to One More Day but then brilliant stories seemed to quash all that during Brand New Day, what will they make of it all getting screwed up again? Could this be one head fuck too far?

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I received this interesting teaser image for The Amazing Spider-Man today simply accompanied by the tagline: The Year of Spider-Man Is 2010. So what does it all mean? For starters it's a pretty cool idea for a teaser image, I'm loving the jigsaw concept and I hope they carry it through for the rest of the promotion of whatever 'this' is. In the image the characters we can positively identify are Black suit Spidey, The Scarlet Spider(?) or maybe not, Madame Web and Araña. There are also a couple of loose pieces of the jigsaw but without seeing them in context it's tough to comment on what any of this can mean, it is possible to see what appears to be classic suit Spider-Man in one of the pieces.

Could Spider-Man be in for another big shake up? Could the fans take another shift so soon in a title that has already been spectactularly rebooted? Or is this just the next story in the triumphant return to form in The Amazing Spider-Man series? My Spidey Sense tell's me whatever is going on it's sure to get people taking a closer look at old web head, I mean I haven't picked up a Spider-Man comic since they cancelled Tangled Web and here I am totally sucked in. Well played Marvel, well played.

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